Blimp bearing Aphex Twin logo appears over London

A blimp decorated in the Aphex Twin logo has appeared flying over London.

The airship – which also features the digits “2014” – was spotted hovering above the Oval Space in Hackney earlier today (August 16).

In June, fans of Aphex Twin (real name Richard James) purchased digital copies of his rare album ‘Caustic Window’ via a Kickstarter campaign. A physical copy of the record – which only reached the pressing phase in 1994 before being scrapped – was auctioned on eBay and sold for £27,198. Money raised from the sale was reportedly split evenly between those who paid into Kickstarter, James himself and an unnamed charity.

“Two are very non-commercial, abstract, modular-synthesis, field recordings – those I finished four years ago. Another one is ‘Melodies From Mars’, which I redid about three years ago,” said James.

He added: “There’s one of stuff I won’t go into; a comp of old tracks. Which is never really finished and always changing; and then one I’m working on now. There are also loads of tracks which don’t belong anywhere.”

Despite this, a new record has not been forthcoming, with his most recent studio album, ‘Drukqs’, released in 2001.